 Home
Current
issue
Previous
issues
Noticeboard
Discussion
board
About
CTiB
|
Church News
Baptist Church |
Holy Trinity |
Methodist Church
St Mary's |
St Michael's |
St Osmund's
Baptist Church
The last few months have been busy ones. We recently celebrated our 148th Church Anniversary with fellowship and friends enjoying a lovely buffet meal and a number of party games – including some rather boisterous rounds of Beetle Drive. We've also enjoyed worship with friends from East Sheen Baptist and the Ham Christian Fellowship. Several of our members were involved with the Pentecost Banquet, serving the guests and clearing up afterwards. We all felt tired afterwards and yet also refreshed and inspired by what the Churches in Barnes can achieve together. More recently several of our members attended the FiSH Sunday Service and tea. Now we are looking forward to playing our part in the forthcoming Celebration of Barnes on 17 July and prior to that manning (or personing!) our stall at Barnes Fair. Our Alpha Course will be starting towards the end of September – further details will be publicised and made available nearer the time.
Susan Broadley
Back to the top
Holy Trinity
At this stage it only remains for me to thank all those who have helped and supported Moira and myself during our twelve years at Holy Trinity: colleagues in CTIB and the Barnes team Ministry, Churchwardens John Richmond and Anthony Phillips, members of the PCC, Edwina and Rose our administrator and secretary, Philip Moore-Stanley our Treasurer, James Cryer our Organist, the Choir Servers, flower arrangers, social committee, those who have assisted in any way in the life and running of the church, and all membersof the congregation. Holy Trinity faces an interesting and challenging time ahead, and I pray for my successor in his or her mission. We have been very happy in our time in the parish and vicarage and will miss the friendly, family atmosphere that makes the church what it is.
I shall be continuing to teach at Colet Court and we shall not be living far away; 11 Lebanon Court, Twickenham TW1 3DA . At weekends and in school holidays Moira and I will be at Ferncott Church Road, Broadstairs Kent CT10 1EZ
Godfrey Holdstock
Back to the top
Methodist Church
For most churches, and indeed usually for us, the summer is a relatively quiet time, with things 'winding down' while people are away. Not this year – we are in a whirl of activity preparing the building for its reopening.
But on one day we will pause to play our part in a nationwide Methodist 'Year of Prayer'. This will start at the beginning of July and go on until June 2006. Each local area has been allocated its time, and in our circuit we will be praying from midnight to midday on 2nd August. For a whole year Methodists all over the country will pray especially for our church (and others), at every hour of the day and night. Anyone can join us – at home or at work. In addition to our other times and moments of prayer, we are challenged to commit ourselves to half an hour of prayer during the twelve hours we are given, and to sign up to that effect. We know that as the hymn says 'the voice of prayer is never silent', but sometimes it is good to feel part of something really big – young and old, in city and countryside, and I guess in many languages.
Veronica Faulks
Back to the top
St Mary's
We were very glad at St Mary’s to host the CTiB Hustings for our constituency candidates in the run up to May’s General Election. I, along with very many others was impressed not just at the quality of the debate but at the tone in which it was conducted. It was an enlightening and encouraging event, in which, to my mind, the two "main" candidates showed themselves to be people of integrity and generosity. It is commonplace nowadays to be cynical about politicians and I believe that we make it very difficult for politicians of real quality to enter public life because of the sneering and hostility that so often passes for political commentary. I am sure that our new MP Susan Kramer, will do a fine job for the constituency. I am also sure she is representative of many MPs in whom we can take considerable pride. It is imperative that as well as holding them to account for their actions we support and encourage them in what they do. As well as being a Christian way of treating fellow human beings, such an approach would also reflect the fact that in many ways democracy in this country arose out of the Christian tradition.
Ross Collins
Back to the top
St Michael's Church
Now that summer is just around the corner, every Wednesday at Noon, weather permitting, we have our Eucharistic worship in the Vicarage garden, followed by lunch. There is always something rather special about praising God with the beauty of creation visibly around you. All who would like to come along will be very welcome.
We have enjoyed a series of fund-raising events. 'One Enchanted Evening', a concert followed by a candle-lit supper was a great occasion. Jeffrey Black gave recital of Dichterliebe by Robert Schumann, which was also followed by a meal. Our annual Jazz Dance was well-attended, and we are grateful for all who supported us.
This summer St Michael’s will be forming several five-a-side teams for young children, who will occasionally meet after the Family Mass.
St Michael's always celebrates the Apostles Feast days in the evening at 7.30. This is a quiet reflective service offering a time simply to step aside from the normal routines of daily life.
Paul Holland
Back to the top
St Osmundl's Church
The media coverage of the events surrounding the funeral of John Paul II and the first days of the new pontiff, Benedict XVI, were most impressive and appreciated. At the Inaugural Mass in St Peter's Pope Benedict said : "My real programme . . . is not to do my own will, not to pursue my own ideas, but to listen, together with the whole Church, to the word and the will of the Lord, to be guided by him, so that he himself will lead the Church". The previous Benedict is recalled as a worker for peace and reconciliation in the days of war in the trenches. He recalled the words of St Benedict, Father of Western Monasticism: "Prefer absolutely nothing to Christ".
Here at St Osmund's in recent weeks we have celebrated with twenty-seven children on the occasion of their first reception of Christ, the Bread of Life, most of them pupils at our school. We look forward to the Barnes Fair, to our annual parish barbecue, and school events – their leavers' barbecue, and the end of term celebration of mass here in the church. In August we expect to welcome Fr Romano once again from Uganda.
Father Anthony Logan
Back to the top
|
|
